Editing Iskandar Khayon (section)

==The Truth==
Khayon makes a number of claims in the novels that are dubious, which raises questions about him telling the truth.

Some of his claims include:
*Claiming to have forced Magnus to kneel before Abaddon. Now, while plenty of the [[Angron|Daemon Primarchs]] [[Magnus|have been]] [[Lorgar|fought, defeated, and threatened]] by normal or elite Astartes, they almost always have a reason for emerging triumphant, be it numbers, some special abilities or special gear. By Khayon's description, it sounds like he engaged and beat Magnus in a duel without any of the above, making his claim ring about as true as the time Ward wrote that his own [[Kaldor Draigo|Mary Sue]] took on and beat a Daemon Primarch. Hopefully like with Draigo, better writers will step in to fix this.
*That all the Daemon Primarchs kneeled before Abaddon. Never referenced outside of ADB's work, and the military might needed to take on and win against Daemon-worlds under control of the Primarchs living on them would've been far more than the Black Legion ever would've (or ever could have) possessed. Do remember that not only would they be fighting the other Traitor Marines, but also all of the Daemons living there who are far more powerful on their home turf and effectively immortal (which includes the Daemon Primarchs).
*Claiming that the Vengeful Spirit is filled with crystal ghosts including one of Sanguinius. This one sounds plausible, and wouldn't be the weirdest thing happening on the ship, but there's a simple problem: if it was true it would be impossible to move around at all. Massive amounts of deaths occur on it from its slaves alone, let alone the battles that have been fought there that the ship would be in a constant state of ejecting crystals just so that anyone could walk down a hallway (which would likely result in working their slaves to death like normal, which would only make the problem worse).
*That a Dark Eldar can live within the Eye of Terror. Like her Elders, Nefertari supposedly needed to "feed" far more often than usual, frequently deteriorated quickly, and - perhaps the biggest reason she shouldn't be able to survive there - she isn't technically alive. A bullshit claim even if she was feeding on souls like she would in Commoragh just a lot more frequently, and it's about as believable as when the [[CS Goto|Black-Irish Leper]] did it. 
*Speaking of his not Girlfriend, the claim that you can bind someone's flesh to their soul and keep them alive after they've died and are in the midst of being devoured by a Chaos God. If this were true then the Eldar would be using this method all the time instead of stones, the Dark Eldar never would've allowed their psychic abilities to atrophy, and the Thousand Sons would use it to fix the Rubric Marines (either by binding their souls to other bodies, or by binding them to their armour in a way that allows them to say more than three words).

As you can see, most of his claims are a bit [[What|WAT]] until you begin to consider his audience. He is being interrogated by the Inquisition, [[Exterminatus|the most reasonable members of the Imperium when it comes to Chaos.]] Even if Khayon isn't lying, would the Inquisition believe anything he says anyway? If he's lying to be Abaddon's hype-man he certainly doesn't need to since the Imperium regards Abbadon as the greatest threat anyway.

Khayon might lie to convert someone or trick them to Chaos, but he might be simply delivering the final declaration of The Long War. He could be reciting the history of the Black Legion as he knows it, or he could be full of shit. Whichever is true Khayon himself declares he is telling the truth even when he would rather lie, and we'll likely never find out the truth anyway. It's also possible all of this could eventually be made canon in the other books, but the it'll be yet another case of shitty writing fucking everything up. There may also be the case that we have become so used to Chaos being shitty, petty and in general stupid evil that for once having a Chaos Sorcerer who doesn't act like a saturday morning cartoon villain come as something of unusual, arguably many of the things he did sound over the top, but in Khayon's defense we can say he doesn't approach some of the levels of mary-sueness [[Kaldor Draigo|seen in some ]][[Marneus Calgar|imperial characters]], in power level terms he and his team got consistently wrecked by a clone of Horus, and it remains to be seen how much effort he got to go through to make Magnus kneel, as nothing in that description says he went to write [[Mortarion|Magnymagic's name with a marker pen upon his heart.]]